It's all the same pace and tone and more often than not a bit forced, like they felt as if they had to make everything 'epic' rather than it being naturally huge sounding. I need to listen to it more though.

One of the tracks appears to have fucking panpipes on it. But where it peaks, it peaks wondefully. I can see where moderaterock is coming from up there, but I personally like that huge-sounding/euphoric BIG rock thing, so those are actually my favourite parts of the record. The opener, 'Tides', is great for that. Nice big guitars with a pretty, shimmering thing going on underneath it.